Oxygen therapy during sleep 'reduces the frequency of apnoea
Chronic dialysis patients can enjoy a better night's sleep with oxygen therapy, a Japanese study has concluded.
The Effects of Oxygen Therapy during sleep in Chronic Dialysis patients with Sleep-Disordered Breathing, published in the Journal of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, showed that oxygen therapy reduces the frequency of apnoea and hypopnea.
Scientists estimated sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) using pulsoximetry the night before hemodialysis and the night after in 85 people receiving chronic hemodialysis and evaluated how effective oxygen therapy was in reducing SDB.
The 13 patients who received oxygen therapy during sleep showed an improvement in their oxygen desaturation index.
"Taken together, a high incidence of nocturnal oxygen desturation due to SDB was observed in chronic dialysis patients, and we propose that oxygen therapy during sleep effectively reduces the frequency of apnoea/hypopnea and improves hypoxemia during sleep," the authors concluded.
The Home Oxygen Therapy for Patients with Heart Failure associated with Sleep-Disturbed Breathing study by professor Shigetake Sasayama, published in the Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine, found breathing oxygen-enriched air improved the sleep quality of people with congestive heart failure and central sleep apnoea.
Posted by James Worrall
21/01/2010 18:28:25
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